Funding, Tuition and Student Debt in 2011
Following an extensive review of the university system in Nova Scotia, at the end of a third MoU with the universities in Nova Scotia, the provincial government announced in 2011 that it will lift the freeze on tuition fee increases but will cap the increase to 3%. Grants to universities will decrease four percent in 2011-12 and decreases for future years will be negotiated separately.
Nova Scotia's current student assistance program still leaves students with significant unmet need and the second-highest level of repayable loans in the country.
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